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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difference between the deficit, $1,459,000,000 and the increase of the public debt, $740,000,000 was due to the fact that the Treasury spent $337,000,000 of its cash on hand at the end of the previous year, and $382,000,000 of net receipts from Government trust accounts...
...Sorrow" to subside. South on the Yangtze River, the main naval drive upstream on Hankow received a temporary setback at Matang, where the Chinese had blocked the stream with a boom. Finally, aided by the rising river waters, a few vessels nosed across and at week's end had pushed their way to Pengtseh, some 175 miles from Hankow...
...minute, compared to an average sculler's 28 to 32), Joe Burk, who weighs 195 lb. and has arms like piano legs, propels his shell with an unorthodox short jerk of his arms and a quick kick of his legs, sits up almost straight at the end of each stroke. This freak style he developed two years ago on New Jersey's Rancocas Creek, hard by his father's fruit farm, after rowing in orthodox fashion on the University of Pennsylvania crew. He can row for miles at 40, can maintain a speed of 12 miles...
...week's end, N. E. A.'s delegates enthusiastically approved a resolution to seek the cooperation of the Legion "and other service organizations having constructive educational programs." But Dr. Gellermann's thesis had not been entirely squelched. Said the arch-conservative New York Herald Tribune: "Has the Legion ever distinguished itself by any intelligent or sustained stand for civil liberties, free speech or the rights of the individual? We doubt it. Not a pressure group? Why, it has been, on occasion, one of the most arrogant and powerful and vindictive of all the pressure groups. . . . If Doctor...
...week's end the teachers had watched a host of speakers shake scolding fingers at foreign dictatorships, had heard themselves nominated for the job of immunizing the nation against emotional propaganda. Thereupon the delegates adopted a resolution urging the President and Congress to "work intelligently, cooperatively and unselfishly for world peace...